Best years to be born in?

[Jimdalf]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

Without the French, the outcome would still be the same. Would it of happened as fast? No. Would it of happened much later? No.

I disagree... sort of. Without direct French military aid in North America itself the war would have taken much longer, thats true, but without French hostility in Europe the revolution would have been crushed by a much larger British force available for deployment overseas. It was always clear that lands as rich as those of the USA wouldn't remain a colony forever though and perhaps in the context of the Napoleonic wars, or whichever large European conflict was raging, considerable freedom would have been granted in return for services rendered, leading to independance soon after. The monarchy have considerable flaws but they have always been realists... better to relinquish control after a revolution is beaten than wait for another one to appear!

Back to Omega's point about the Revolution, and its meaningfulness as the genesis of the nation... what about Korea and Vietnam, the two wars thought because of the Domino theory to protect the American way of life indirectly? What makes them so unattractive?

[eltonjohn24]

i want to be born on American Revolution and create a powerful firearm that will conquer all....and will change history books...

[-paT_BiZzL3-]

Originally Posted by Z3CH

I'd love to have been an infantryman in WWII. It was just such a good war. Battling a crazed tyrannical leader who wants world domination. Come on, what could be better?

There's no way in hell I'd serve in Vietnam or Korea, they fought like whimps. Setting up poison traps and such, that's just ****ed up. World War 2 was fought (for the most part) with honor, most people avoided shooting medics and priests, and all that good stuff. In the current conflicts, they don't care what they kill. Those extremists will be happy killing anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.

I agree 100%. The fact that we were against two tyrannical leaders hungry for world domination (Hitler, and Mussolini, Stalin was more Cold War), It made WWII much more intense. Although this was very costly and resulted in a lot of American casualties, I would have loved to be in this war. The war in the Pacific against Japan was probably the worst part of WWII though, All that island hopping and Pearl Harbor and what not, I would've hated to be in the Pacific campaign.